Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance

• DOI: 10.1007/s12152-007-9003-3
• Publication Date: 2008-02-06T11:09:55Z
• Authors: Adina L. Roskies
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Neuroscience (miscellaneous); Psychology (miscellaneous)

Brain images are used both as scientific evidence and to illustrate the results of neuroimaging experiments. These apt be viewed photographs brain activity, in so viewing them people prone assume that they share evidential characteristics photographs. Photographs epistemically compelling, have a number underlie what I call their inferential proximity. Here explore aptness photography analogy, argue although does bear important similarities photography, details generation analysis neuroimages significantly complicate relation image data. Neuroimages not inferentially proximate, but seeming increases potential for misinterpretation. This suggests caution appealing such public domain.